Toy pistol



R. L. FORD TOY PISTOL Sept. 11, 1928.

Filed Aug. 15,1927

Patented Sept-11, 1928.

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UNITE sEs IEtOIBEIEttI. LEE EORD, OF ST LOUIS, MISSOURI.

'roY PISTOL.

Application filed August 15, 1927; Serial No. 215,085.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the barrel of, my

' toy pistol. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my toy pistol.

Fig. 3 is a front end view of my toy' pistol showing the lighter in position.

Fig. 4 is a view of the clamp by which the lighter is held in posit-ion.

The chief enjoyment derived from the ex- 0 ploding of fire crackers is the volume and intensity of the noise resulting therefrom, and I have found by experimentation that the use'of a barrel, made of bell or other sonorous metal, having abore many times larger than -;the diameter of the fire cracker, greatly increases the noise resulting from the explosion.

Another advantage secured by my construction isthat a convenient lighting device, which may be either a wax candle or any other device such as a'cigar lighter, is attaohed to the front end of. the pistol in such 7 av manner as to support thelighter with the point of the flame reaching the fuse of the fire cracker when placed'in a horizontal plane in the barrel of the pistol.

In order to lower the cost of manufacture to a minimum, my invention consists in providing a toy pistol having a barrel 1, made of suitable sonorous metal, enclosed by a cap 2, or other suitable closure, mounted upon a stock 3 by means of tap screws 4 and 5 tapped into barrel at 6. r

. wood or thin sheet metal.

A clamp 7 for holding the lighter 8 in position consists, in my preferred method of construction, of a flat, metal strip 9 provided with an opening 1 0 at one end disposed in a horizontal plane, and twisted inter-mediate of its ends at right angles so that the opening 11 in the opposite end lies in avertical pl ane.

A clevis 12 of flexible material is bentin shape to hold a candle or taper by means of contracting it when the bolt 13 is drawn taut through the openings 11, 14 and 15. V

The stock 3 may be made of any suitable The mode of operation consists of clamping, thecandle in the position shown in Fig. 2, I so that when lighted the point of the flame will reach about the center of the bore of the barrel, the. fire cracker is inserted in, thebarrel and as soon as the fuse is lighted a sliding movement of the hand causes the fire cracker to slide into the breech of the pistol. The candle is afiix'ed a sufficient distancobelow the bore of the barrel to prevent the explosion 5 from extinguishing the light. 7 1

Having fully described my in 'entiomwhat I claim as new and useful; and desire to protect by Letters Patent is A toy pistol of the ass described, com- 7 prising a barrel made of sonorous metal, a bore ofrelatively large diameter in said barrel, open at the muzzle end and closed at the breech end, a stock'attach'edto said bore by means of tap bolts passing through said stock- I and screw-threaded into said barrel, means for supporting a flame of fire beneath the muzzle of said barrel, said flame being so disposed that the point thereofwill contact with the fuse of a fire cracker inserted in the muzzle of said barrel. I r v In witness whereof I have hereunto afliXod my signature this 2nd day of August, 1927.

ROBERT LEE FORD. 

